The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . to the food bill of 5,000,000 men, women, andchildren—a million and a quarter one pound jarsper week, or, roughly 625,000 tons a year ! Youcan do much with figures. Quite an enormoussale of bread and jam made in all thebusy quarters of London — in the immediateneighbourhood of factories and workshops. Thekeeper of one little general shop informed the persons, young and old, for various terms ; and haveused nearly 58,000 glass bottles and jars in gettingthis jam ready for market. How the genial coun-te
The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . to the food bill of 5,000,000 men, women, andchildren—a million and a quarter one pound jarsper week, or, roughly 625,000 tons a year ! Youcan do much with figures. Quite an enormoussale of bread and jam made in all thebusy quarters of London — in the immediateneighbourhood of factories and workshops. Thekeeper of one little general shop informed the persons, young and old, for various terms ; and haveused nearly 58,000 glass bottles and jars in gettingthis jam ready for market. How the genial coun-tenance of the once-famous tenant of Tiptree Hall,Alderman and Sheriff Mechi, would brighten atsuch an enumeration as this, and how he would havelectured his brother agriculturists on jam as histheme! But not only this sweetness is manu-factured by this young and enterprising company ; aswith nearly all other fruit preservers, some dozenother commodities are put upon the market—not allthe eggs being put in one basket. But it would bewsste of space to occupy attention further with this. Fig. 78.—l.*:lia boothiana: flowers, purple. writer the other day that she sold over 500 slices ofjam every day—there were plenty of margarine slicesas well, but the jam was preferred. It would appearthen that the supply can hardly be overdone—as yet,and the amount of labour called into use in themanufacture and marketing is very great. Thereare the regular field and orchard workers, those con-cerned in harvesting and manufacturing, in themanufacture of glass and earthenware bottles andjars, in fancy printing and packing-cases, and in alot of other industries. Here is a little itemworth notiog, as giving point to our remarks allround. The Britannia Fruit Preserving Company atthe world-renowned Tiptree, in Essex, have thisyear harvested over 200 tons of fruit—have made100 tons of jam, in which they have used 50 tons ofsugar; in producing all this have employed 400 matter at present; th
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